British Airways unveils its new coronavirus catering – it’s an improvement on the plastic bags

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• sayling says:

  11 Jun11 June 16:34

  Excellent first step towards a proper service resuming.

  Presumably still supplied by Do&Co, does anyone know who else they provide catering for?

  • Andrew says:

    11 Jun11 June 17:44

    Yes the Do&Co logo is on the outside of the box.

• Dominic Barrington says:

  11 Jun11 June 16:51

  Do we know about bedding, and about PJs in First? And amenity kits?

• Freddy says:

  11 Jun11 June 17:06

  Meal deal from boots looks more attractive – at least I get to pick!

  • Chris says:

    11 Jun11 June 17:30

    If LHR let it reopen Gordon Ramsey’s Planefood is going to make a fortune

    • ChrisC says:

      11 Jun11 June 22:13

      Air side outets whether food or retail will open as and when their off airport counterparts can

      So it would be possible for the shops to open from Monday. That’s if HAL and the shops feel there will be enough punters spending enough money to make it worthwhile

• Dave H says:

  11 Jun11 June 17:23

  The email BA sent out last week, special meals will not be available!

• BJ says:

  11 Jun11 June 17:42

  Assuming that the 744s may mostly go off to the graveyard and the a380s might not be widely used in the short term if not longer, are BA going to have sufficient metal with an First cabin to cover most of the routes that previously had it? If not, which routes are most likely to lose and retain First?

• GaryC says:

  11 Jun11 June 18:48

  I love all these comments about how “rubbish” the new food offering 🙂 They’re a nice dessert after the main-course of tantrums here and on FT about status extension 🙂

  It seems there are lots of people whose entire sense of self-worth is built on the colour of their BAEC card and the type of plate their food is served on 😀

  • BJ says:

    11 Jun11 June 19:43

    Speaking only for myself, the only colour of card I like is blue. The existence of other colours spoils my lounge experience. I’m not too fussed about the food either as it’s not worth getting excited about. If it tastes the same or is better out a box then that’s fine with me. However, BA should just cut the cr*p though and acknowledge they are doing this at this time to cut costs.

  • RWJ says:

    12 Jun12 June 10:02

    Can’t please all of the people all of the time. Certainly not frequent flyers it seems! I think some (not all – there are many valid points being made) need to sort out their priorities!

  • Sandra B says:

    13 Jun13 June 00:50

    +1

• Paul says:

  11 Jun11 June 18:56

  Personally, I kind of prefer the ‘boxes’ idea. Realistically I find the ‘service’ part of the meal a complete faff. Don’t get me wrong, I think not offering a hot meal in club on a long haul is pathetic, but I’d be happy for it all to arrive at once, at a time of my choosing, on a small tray perhaps, for me to decide where to spread it around my seat/storage area. The whole 1 bit at a time just annoys me, it’s not like the quality is such that i need it all separately to savour individual elements. Also this might speed up service to maximise sleep time, and would allow me to get comfy without necessarily having the table down in front of me for the better part of an hour, which i find very annoying being somewhat taller than the seats were designed for.

  • RWJ says:

    12 Jun12 June 09:59

    Agreed. I’d much rather have something like this and do it myself. Don’t even really care about hot vs cold as long as it’s decent food. Never find hot food tastes very nice at altitude anyway.

• Dave Winchester says:

  11 Jun11 June 19:30

  It’s definitely a step up.

  But packaging them to actually resemble a ready meal or salad from pretty does make me think people will wonder why they’re paying all the extra cash..

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